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What is a DoS (Denial of Service) attack?

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The correct answer is B) Flooding a target with traffic or requests to exhaust resources and make it unavailable to legitimate users

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Correct Answer

Flooding a target with traffic or requests to exhaust resources and make it unavailable to legitimate users

Explanation

DoS floods targets with traffic (SYN flood, HTTP flood, ICMP flood). DDoS uses many systems (botnets). Mitigations: rate limiting, anycast, scrubbing centers (Cloudflare, Akamai).

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